The state of MCPS is atrocious

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:College freshman here. We absolutely don’t use physical textbooks. Everything is online. Sorry to the extremely angry dinosaur here but that’s the truth.

No one cares about physical textbooks. We’ve been talking about texts, physical or digital.

So calm down and go to class.

+1000. You and pp that said text books don’t exist anymore are embarrassing yourselves.
Text books don’t have to be bound paper books, just like a mixtape doesn’t need to be on a cassette anymore. Jesus.

Lol no one ever said that. The entire argument has been about some moron wanting physical textbooks. No one ever denied online textbooks exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is... technology is being inserted throughout the day in lieu of face to face teaching- gym teachers showing exercise dance videos, teachers using YouTube read alouds instead of reading the books, art teachers showing lessons via you tube, you tube movement breaks, prodigy instead of real math lessons


-mcps educator

What school are you at that prodigy counts as a math lesson? Probably not true. Worked in 5 different mcps schools and never seen a gym teacher using YouTube. Name the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College freshman here. We absolutely don’t use physical textbooks. Everything is online. Sorry to the extremely angry dinosaur here but that’s the truth.

No one cares about physical textbooks. We’ve been talking about texts, physical or digital.

So calm down and go to class.

+1000. You and pp that said text books don’t exist anymore are embarrassing yourselves.
Text books don’t have to be bound paper books, just like a mixtape doesn’t need to be on a cassette anymore. Jesus.

Lol no one ever said that. The entire argument has been about some moron wanting physical textbooks. No one ever denied online textbooks exist.

Most classes are not assigned an online textbook and those that are are not following it and it’s random topics and assignments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing is... technology is being inserted throughout the day in lieu of face to face teaching- gym teachers showing exercise dance videos, teachers using YouTube read alouds instead of reading the books, art teachers showing lessons via you tube, you tube movement breaks, prodigy instead of real math lessons


-mcps educator

What school are you at that prodigy counts as a math lesson? Probably not true. Worked in 5 different mcps schools and never seen a gym teacher using YouTube. Name the school.

I've seen it in multiple schools,any low income

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing is... technology is being inserted throughout the day in lieu of face to face teaching- gym teachers showing exercise dance videos, teachers using YouTube read alouds instead of reading the books, art teachers showing lessons via you tube, you tube movement breaks, prodigy instead of real math lessons


-mcps educator

What school are you at that prodigy counts as a math lesson? Probably not true. Worked in 5 different mcps schools and never seen a gym teacher using YouTube. Name the school.

I've seen it in multiple schools,any low income

Name them then so we can call them out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

Why does it matter what school? None are using them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

Why does it matter what school? None are using them.

You’re. Lying. Why doesn’t it matter? It’s an anonymous board…. Naming the school means nothing for you personally. At least we’ll all be informed about schools not following the set curriculum…. if you were actually telling the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

Why does it matter what school? None are using them.

None? I’ll go first… I work at Bethesda elementary. We definitely are. I could name 10 other schools where they are too but we’ll just wait for you to name the schools who aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Student and parent access to material that allows them to see and review the lessons/concepts, not just exercises, would be nice. Many would do better in this regard, for a variety of reasons, with physical textbooks than via an online platform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

Why does it matter what school? None are using them.

I have to agree. The posters on this thread seem like textbooks industry shills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thing about everything being online, is that kids are not mature enough to regulate their computer usage. Elementary school and middle school kids are gaming and going on random websites instead of learning. Lots of distractions that having textbooks would sidetrack- at least until the kids get cell phones and are distracted that way.

-mcps educator

Elementary kids technically have textbooks. Benchmark (as problematic as it is)… they have magazines. There are Eureka workbooks for math…and also, both are online if need be. Pretty sure MCPS has this covered.

The problem is teachers don't use them.

Actually teachers in MCPS have to use them. Are parents here really this misinformed?

Not in the past few years. We follow what is going on.

Staff development teacher here. There’s not a single elementary school that wouldn’t use benchmark magazines or Eureka books. Been that way since 2020. Stop gaslighting this forum with your misinformation.

We've been at several schools. The books all remained unused.

And you’re still not answering the question. Kinda confirms you’re lying.

Why does it matter what school? None are using them.

I have to agree. The posters on this thread seem like textbooks industry shills.

I’m the farthest thing from that. I just don’t believe kids—especially in K-8–learn well using primarily online materials.

I’m happy my daughter’s classroom has very little technology in it. She’s in lower ES.